DMI 2022 SNAPSHOT

 What does data modernization look like? 

DATA MODERNIZATION LOOKS LIKE... 

AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST 

spending the day 

investigating COVID-19 

cases instead of entering 

them into a spreadsheet 

A COMMUNITY 

HEALTH WORKER 

knowing precisely 

which neighborhood 

needs a pop-up 

vaccine clinic 

A PUBLIC 

HEALTH ANALYST 

producing a report that 

used to take two days in 

just two clicks of a button 

A RESEARCH TEAM 

analyzing more than 

12 million health 

records to understand 

latent tuberculosis 

infection 

A RESPONDER 

catching an uptick in 

overdose deaths and 

sending fentanyl test 

strips to the frontlines 

A DATA SCIENTIST 

visualizing social 

media feeds to help 

monitor suicide trends 

A MULTI-STATE 

HEALTHCARE 

NETWORK 

saving 160,000 staff 

hours that would have 

been spent on paperwork 

A POLICYMAKER 

using a real-time 

wastewater 

surveillance 

dashboard to send 

resources where 

they’re needed most 

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MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES LIKE... 

Automated, ELECTRONIC 

REPORTING that replaces 

paper and reduces the burden 

on health department staff 

A suite of CLOUDBASED tools that 

saves time and costs 

while analyzing more 

kinds of data faster 

than ever before 

A DATA CATALOG where CDC’s 

experts can see which data exist 

in any part of the agency on any 

disease or condition 

One FRONT DOOR for state 

and local partners to send 

data to all of CDC instead of 

sending to multiple programs 

in multiple ways 

A NORTH STAR 

ARCHITECTURE 

for data that can be 

used by every level 

of public health to 

collect, transform, and 

share information 

COMMON STANDARDS that help 

different data systems across public 

health and healthcare speak the 

same language 

Dashboards that 

VISUALIZE DATA 

and make it available to 

the public, researchers, 

and policymakers in 

real time 

Novel approaches like 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

AND MACHINE LEARNING 

that can discover relationships 

in the data that are hard for 

traditional methods to find 
AND BY FINDING NEW WAYS TO... 

Bring people from 

across public 

health, government, 

academia, and 

industry together 

to find common 

SOLUTIONS to 

common data 

problems 

OPEN UP THE 

DATA so that 

more people 

have access to 

the information 

they need for 

decisions, both in 

emergencies and 

every day 

Make sure that 

HEALTH EQUITY 

is “baked in” from 

the start on everything we do 

Offer public health 

staff opportunities 

to LEARN BY DOING 

and to access the 

latest data science 

training anytime, 

anywhere 

Modernize the 

POLICIES AND 

AGREEMENTS

that inform how 

data are exchanged 

so that we can get 

information where 

it needs to go to 

save lives

USE RESOURCES 

WISELY by making 

sure everything 

we invest in is 

connected, flexible, 

and sustainable 

for the future 

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RESULTING IN... 

Data 

increased 

20,000+ 

healthcare facilities 

delivering automated, 

real-time case reports 

—up from just 187 

before the pandemic 

91% 

complete race information in 

syndromic surveillance—up 

from 80% in 2019—which is 

critical important for understanding health disparities 

~90% 

of death records coded 

automatically using natural 

language processing—up 

from 75% with the previous 

system—with data to 

jurisdictions in minutes 

Time 

saved 

~80% 

decrease in development 

time for CDC’s response and 

surveillance programs using 

new Cloud components 

1+ 

year reduction in the time it 

takes to understand suicide 

death trends thanks to new 

“nowcasting” capabilities 

~5.5 

days from sample collection 

to data available in CDC’s 

wastewater surveillance 

system—down from ~4 weeks 

People 

connected 

3,700 

training hours completed 

by CDC staff in the Data 

Academy—an 83% increase 

over the previous year 

18 

multi-sector meetings of 

the Consortium for Data 

Modernization, covering 

24 high-priority topics 

200+ 

CDC staff actively engaged 

in defining priorities and 

solving challenges through 

DMI Implementation Teams 

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